{"id":67760,"date":"2026-03-02T12:55:08","date_gmt":"2026-03-02T17:55:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/03\/02\/fourth-american-service-member-killed-in-iran-operation\/"},"modified":"2026-03-02T12:55:08","modified_gmt":"2026-03-02T17:55:08","slug":"fourth-american-service-member-killed-in-iran-operation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/03\/02\/fourth-american-service-member-killed-in-iran-operation\/","title":{"rendered":"Fourth American service member killed in Iran operation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>US military also says three US fighter jets were shot down over in \u2018friendly fire\u2019 incident, all six crew members survived<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/live\/2026\/mar\/02\/us-israel-war-iran-live-updates-attacks-strikes-tehran-lebanon-beirut-hezbollah-dubai-latest-news\">US-Israel war on Iran \u2013 live updates<\/a><\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2026\/feb\/17\/sign-up-for-the-breaking-news-us-email-to-get-newsletter-alerts-direct-to-your-inbox?utm_medium=ACQUISITIONS_STANDFIRST&amp;utm_campaign=BN22326&amp;utm_content=signup&amp;utm_term=standfirst&amp;utm_source=GUARDIAN_WEB\">Sign up for the Breaking News US email to get newsletter alerts in your inbox<\/a><\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>A fourth American service member has been killed in the US military operations against Iran, the US Central Command said on Monday.<\/p>\n<p>The announcement comes one day after the military <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2026\/mar\/01\/iran-attack-us-service-members-killed\">confirmed <\/a>the deaths of three US service members on Sunday, which marked the first known US fatalities since the strikes against Iran began on Saturday.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2026\/mar\/02\/iran-attack-fourth-us-service-member-killed\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>US military also says three US fighter jets were shot down over in \u2018friendly fire\u2019 incident, all six crew members survived US-Israel war on Iran \u2013 live updates Sign up for the Breaking News US email to get newsletter alerts in your inbox A fourth American service member has been killed in the US military &#8230; <a title=\"Fourth American service member killed in Iran operation\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/03\/02\/fourth-american-service-member-killed-in-iran-operation\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about Fourth American service member killed in Iran operation\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-67760","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67760","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=67760"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67760\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=67760"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=67760"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=67760"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}